ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe. You control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic dominion.
Since this mod is a total conversion of Endless Space, all the planetary improvements, construction costs, and research times will need to be rebalanced anyway so I might as well start with a simple, clean pattern for planets.
I enjoy terraforming planets as part of developing my empire. I don’t want to have to decide on a planet by planet basis if I should terraform or not. I use the balanced governor for all my worlds and don’t want the focus of a planet to be changed through terraforming. I also want to make sure the AI isn't placed at a disadvantage by terraforming strategies.
I updated the design document to describe the thoughts behind the planetary FIDS. Any improvements to the design now will save rework during playtesting later. That is why I published it early. Thanks for the feedback.
The design has evolved significantly during implementation. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to update the published design document. I did want to address one request: "I hope you will leave the current Disharmony ship bonuses in; they force each faction to play differently. "
Starship Weight Bonuses
Each starship class gets a 50% weight bonus based in its primary role. Transport: Civilian, Corvette: Armor, Destroyer: Point Defense, Cruiser: Invasion, Battleship: Troop, Dreadnaught: Fighter & Bomber
Each faction has an affinity for one weapon 25%, one range 25%, and one defense 33% that apply to all military ships for that faction.
Each military ship within a faction has a 33% weight bonus to randomly assigned Scout, Repair, Power, Engine, or Bombs; to increase variety within their ranks.
LetoSilvermane wrote: I did want to address one request: "I hope you will leave the current Disharmony ship bonuses in; they force each faction to play differently.
Sorry rmv, but I'm not going to be able to fix the crash you encountered loading a save game. It crashes the same way with vanilla Endless Space so I can't isolate which mod file might be causing a problem.
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I ran into this problem during playtesting. It was caused by an exploration event generating a pirate ship with no modules. I fixed it by doubling the strength of the pirates generated by exploration events.
All factions now have the same number of faction specific techs. Where one empire had too many and another had too few, I reassigned them.
The bottom tree has Proprietary [EmpireName] with two faction specific star system improvements.
The right tree has [EmpireName] Edge, [EmpireName] Advantage, and [EmpireName] Domination with three faction specific empire-wide effects.
Everything else is common among all factions. I only play with the United Empire affinity so if something important is missing from your favorite faction let me know and I may be able to restore it.
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